Architecture and Systems Thinking
Read how decisions about ownership, authorization, evidence, failure attribution and deletion shape a long-lived agent. Some linked essays remain available only in Chinese.
Explore the eight core principles and six on-demand methods, including Context as a workbench, minimum sufficient mechanisms and replaceable capabilities. Existing essays are listed below; new and revised topics are clearly distinguished in the writing roadmap.
CURATED READING PATHS3 categories · 43 articles
ARCHITECTURE & SYSTEMS THINKING
01 / Architecture and Systems Thinking
System boundaries, responsibility, reliability and change.
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System Architecture and Responsibilities
Who interprets, authorizes, owns facts and removes obsolete structures.
- From One Question to a Six-Layer Agent System (Chinese original)
- Models Understand; Code Authorizes
- Don't Turn the Model into a State Machine (Chinese original)
- Responsibilities of Model, Runtime, MCP and Skills (Chinese original)
- Run Termination, Stage Budgets and Safe Recovery (Chinese original)
- Why Financial Market MCP Became a Decision System (Chinese original)
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Reliability, Feedback and Governance
Find the real point of failure instead of misdiagnosing feedback.
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Evolution and Financial Boundaries
Distinguish analysis, advice, execution and reproducible financial calculations.
- Code Is Cheaper; Why Are Systems Harder to Evolve? (Chinese original)
- Why Saved HTML Can Still Fail Delivery
- Building an ETF Research Assistant
- Boundaries Between Research, Advice and Trading
- Financial Data: Time, Definitions and Reproducibility
- Why Python Results Can Still Be Misused in Reports
- A Trustworthy Evidence Chain for Financial Agents (Chinese original)